First Flight after hover tests ends in disaster

[crumpmd]

We hovered the Walkera Dragon fly 60 through 4 cycles of recharges and tried to do the 90 degree hover next. When I sensed a loss of control, too much forward speed, I spazzed and instead of pulling throttle and cyclic back together I moved the throttle forward and really lost control. It smacked into a brick wall about 30 feet away.
Both rotor blades, one blade mount, one skid trashed. New parts on order.
I have a better spot for flying now. It is 300 yards away from any obstruction and perfectly flat. A hayfield.
Hopefully I can get through the rest of hover training with out crashing.

[dooleyje]

sorry to hear. Keep the faith as we all went through some parts at first. I go to learn other attitudes of helicopters is to always find a happy safe place in stead of losing control. My happy place was back to hover with tail toward me. Practise this often. I still use this even after I mess up a 3D trick. I go to my safe place, take a deep breath and try again. I have been fying heli for ten years and the reason I stick to it is tha fun of challenge. If it were easy we would not enjoy it.

JIM